If someone could tell Tom and Kelsey thank you for me, that'd be awesome! they sent me some candy and I thought that was very nice of them. Let them know that i really appreciate it!
Where to start... Ill go with Sunday because the beginning isn't so interesting. Yeah I've been assigned to be the Zone leader! We go went to branch counsel and reported on our zone and district and such. We are also supposed to plan our Sunday meetings next week. We've conducted district leader interviews and such as well.
We have 2 investigators. I mean "investigators" because they are both members. But they act real if that counts. We teach them every day and prepare lessons for them which have gotten alot better over the last few days. Teaching is a lot harder than I thought it would be but I've gotten used to it and understood more how to teach the investigator, not the lesson. We had 2 lessons specifically where we came out and were like... that was awesome! they totally got it and we were able to convey our message very well to them! we did a little celebration dance as well.
My district is super duper fun. We are sooooo tight. We do like everything together and that makes life so much more enjoyable. I care for them so much and I am willing to do anything for them. which leads me too... a crazy experience I had!
On Thursday at the end of the day I thought I would stand up and tell everyone that I loved them and I was willing to do anything for them, like blessings just talking etc. Thought it was a little weird but I did it anyways. Two days later one of our sisters was having a super rough day for whatever reason and she asked me if I could give her a blessing. Now I've never given a blessing so it made me super nervous but of course I said yes. I didn't know what to say of what she needed. Anyways as I'm sure many people know, words just come to you when you are blessing someone. I didn't know what I was saying and I knew that it was the lord talking through me. Now all of that is pretty normal but what was really strange to me was that I saw distinct images of her on her mission in the future, teaching lessons and being an amazing missionary. After I ended the blessing I told her "privately" (our companions were there) what I saw. For whatever reason, she didn't think she could be a great missionary but I was able to directly change her mind and she was able to completely change her views and her attitude about herself.
Honestly I KNOW my district will be amazing missionaries. They are literally the best missionaries I've ever seen. Ive had the opportunity to observe their lessons as well as be a fake investigator for them all and they are truly amazing. We are all sent to the same district for a reason. They will be my leaders in not too long and I look up to them a lot. I love them all more than I thought I could love randoms strangers that I met a week ago.
This might surprise my family... but I've become known as the random fact king in our district. For some reason they enjoy me saying random facts all the time which works for me because i love random facts.
I guess thats all for now, I'm still working on sending pictures. I have to switch computers so ill email them a little bit later.
Anyways ask me any questions that you want and ill be sure to answer them! Thanks for the love!
Love
Elder Andy Carter
